Just read a great opinion column on slate.com about Anti-Americanism. In it, the author posits that the term is meaningless because it is primarily used to describe leftists or Muslim extremists. An excerpt:
But what if, just for a moment, one tried to classify something as "anti-American" for its own sake? My nomination would go to Pat Robertson, who appeared on the television in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 atrocity and declared that the mass murder in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania was a divine punishment for a society that indulged secularism, pornography, and homosexual conduct. Here is a man who quite evidently dislikes his own society and sympathizes, not all that covertly, with those who would use violence and fanaticism to destroy it. He dislikes this society, furthermore, for the very things that it tends to advertise about itself, namely permissiveness and variety. If this is not "anti-American" then the term is truly meaningless.
Boston has hired a youngster as the new GM of the Red Sox, and already jokes abound about Theo Epstein, the 28 year-old newcomer and youngest GM in baseball history. Some favorites:
The Sox are having The Discovery Channel piped into their executive offices
Theo can't be on ''Sports Final'' because it's after his bedtime
Epstein gets to throw out the first ball at Fenway's annual Kids Opening Day
He's looking forward to someday watching ''Thirtysomething'' re-runs
Theo's favorite Red Sox player is Wally the Green Monster.And a clever WEEI listener quipped that [Red Sox CEO Larry] Lucchino now has a bumper sticker on his car that reads, ''My GM was Student of the Month at Brookline High School.''
I love this kind of stuff. As background, I think all politicians are duplicitious liars, so when they completely change their positions on an issue just because of who's in power, it comes as no big surprise. But it's still fun to watch the hypocrisy fly....
Boston has hired a youngster as the new GM of the Red Sox, and already 
